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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

I won't deny, I've been using the term 'Feature, not Bug,' a lot this past week as people keep puzzling why some orgs are so innefficient. I try to have them rephrase the problem to see if they can see why people are being rewarded for that inefficiency.

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Daniel Gmyrek's avatar

Your last paragraph reminds me of Teddy Rosevelt’s “man in the arena” speech: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

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Andrew Smith's avatar

This was introduced to me by way of judo. TR was a judoka!

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Daniel Gmyrek's avatar

Funny coincidence: I just learned about TR’s judo training from the Sidedoor: A Podcast from the Smithsonian episode titled “The Art of the Fist” yesterday

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Andrew Smith's avatar

That's a great coincidence! It means we both should go watch some judo videos this weekend. :)

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Daniel Nest's avatar

"It's not a bug, it's a beetle" - entomologists

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I think those are smallcarologists, actually.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Folkswagonologists

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Sum's avatar

And turning a bug into a feature might be called “alchemy”.

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Sum's avatar

And learning from your mistakes has often been called “wisdom”…

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